Cuba: Tropical Red Square

The weather was balmier, and in Russia no one
would be wearing U.S. Army-style combat fatigues. But otherwise, Cuba's
third anniversary celebration of Fidel Castro's rise to power might
have taken place in Moscow's Red Square. Mounting his own version of
Lenin's tombthe José Marti monument in Havana's Plaza de la
RevolucionCastro and his Cuban commissars proudly reviewed the crack
units of a Communist-trained, Communist-supplied military machine that
is bigger than that of any Western Hemisphere country except the U.S.

As a crowd of 500,000 Cubans looked on, 1 8 Soviet-built MIG-17s plus
three supersonic MIG-19s thundered over the reviewing...